Contact her at cara.tabachnick@cbsinteractive.com Buried in the cellar of George Washington's Mount Vernon home, a treasure trove was waiting to be discovered – an enormous amount of preserved ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. — George Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but he did pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon home.

“These artifacts likely haven’t seen the light of day since before the American Revolution, perhaps forgotten when George Washington departed Mount Vernon to take command of the Continental ...

Vernon, studies the domestic life ... delicious birds as would supply the larder for a week," said George Washington Parke Custis, Martha Washington's grandson. Anderson had been born in Africa ...

This essay is adapted from First Family: George ... next owned Mount Vernon, John Augustine Washington II and III, similarly preferred to stay out of the limelight. It was the Custis ...

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Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project. The wallpaper was found at the Old York Historical Society in Maine ...